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Juan Cole

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One Polish Soldier Killed Four Us

One Polish Soldier Killed Four Us

Juan Cole

One Polish Soldier Killed, Four US Troops Wounded Guerrillas in the town of Iskandariya, 45 km south of Baghdad, attacked US troops with a home made bomb on Sunday at 11 am, wounding two. (Note that this attack occurred, not in the usual northern Sunni Arab areas, but in a Shiite region on the road […]

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Constitutional Committee In Basra

Constitutional Committee In Basra

Juan Cole

Constitutional Committee in Basra The Preparatory Committee for Drafting the Constitution met Sunday in Basra, chaired by Salah al-Battat. Attending members were Drs. Muhammad al-Muzaffar, Mahdi Jad Mahdi, and Safa’ al-Din al-Safi. Sayyid `Ali `Abd al-Hakim made opening remarks in which it was mentioned that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani had prepared a prototype constitution, which […]

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Kuwaitis Reject Bremers Call To Forgive

Kuwaitis Reject Bremers Call To Forgive

Juan Cole

Kuwaitis Reject Bremer’s Call to Forgive Iraq Reparations Kuwait’s government rejected any suggestion that it cease demanding reparations from Iraq. CPA head Paul Bremer recently called on Kuwait and other Gulf states to write off loans they had made to Iraq (mostly during the Iran-Iraq war) and in the case of Kuwait, to let Iraq […]

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Lies Damn Lies And Statistics Two

Lies Damn Lies And Statistics Two

Juan Cole

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Two recent opinion polls, one done by the Zogby group looking at 600 residents from four Iraqi cities, and another done of 1200 residents of Baghdad, have been trumpeted by Bush administration officials and by Rightwing rags like the National Review as containing good news for the US. The officials […]

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Al Zawahiri Overthow Musharraf Deputy

Al Zawahiri Overthow Musharraf Deputy

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al-Zawahiri: Overthow Musharraf! The deputy head of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahir, issued a videotape in which he called on Pakistanis to rise up and overthrow President Pervez Musharraf. He also condemned the recent visit of Israeli officials to New Delhi, decrying an Indian/Israeli/United States axis, which they allege keeps the Palestinians down. Al-Zawarihi also warned that […]

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Bushs Bad News Blues For Bill

Bushs Bad News Blues For Bill

Juan Cole

Bush’s Bad News Blues For Bill Berkowitz’s fine piece, “Bush’s bad news blues Administration cooks up new campaign ‘to shine light on progress made in Iraq’” in Working for Change/ Working Assets (which quotes this ephemeral servant), see http://www.workingforchange.com/ article.cfm?itemid=15703

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Extent Of Saddams Atrocities John

Extent Of Saddams Atrocities John

Juan Cole

Extent of Saddam’s Atrocities? John Laughland questions UK PM Tony Blair’s assertion that Saddam put 300,000 Iraqis into mass graves. The figure 290,000 victims of Saddam, he says, comes from Human Rights Watch and they admit it is soft in many ways (i.e. not based on actual body counts, which are so far relatively small). […]

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Two Us Soldiers Killed On Late Thursday

Two Us Soldiers Killed On Late Thursday

Juan Cole

Two US Soldiers Killed On late Thursday, guerrillas fired a rocket propelled grenade at military vehicles near Kirkuk, killing a soldier from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and injuring two others. In Tikrit, a US soldier, from the 4th ID was killed by a fire in an abandoned building, and another was wounded.

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Sadrist Militia Interferes With Burial

Sadrist Militia Interferes With Burial

Juan Cole

Sadrist Militia interferes with Burial Rites for Aqila al-Hashimi Aqila al-Hashimi, a Shiite member of the Interim Governing Council, was buried in Najaf on Friday after having been assassinated, probably by Baathist goons. Ordinarily the body would have been carried to the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kazim at al-Kazimiya, a suburb of Baghdad, for prayers […]

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